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Lives Quotes by Stephen Covey
- If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
- People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that…
- A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless…
- When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will find…
- Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted…
- Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be…
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're…
- As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the…
- We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the…
- Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.…
- The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most…
- Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to…
- As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings…
- If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want…
- Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part…
- All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own…
- An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also…
- As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.
- Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower…
- I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important…
- In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results…
- How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each…
- we're responsible for our own lives.
- How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives…
- The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius